How to protect your online privacy

If you want to protect your online privacy you can easily follow this tutorial that walks you through online privacy protection step by step.

This hopefully easy-to-follow tutorial on how to protect your privacy online that you can follow without needing any prior knowledge of how cybersecurity works.

There are many degrees of action people are willing to take to protect the privacy of their lives on the Internet.

So, this tutorial starts with getting the most amount of privacy possible without sacrificing any convenience and gradually shifts this balance towards threat models where convenience can’t be an issue.

This tutorial will start from minimal privacy protection and continue all the way to the maximum privacy.

The first thing we are going to do is to change the web browser. Right now, you are most likely on Google Chrome or maybe even your systems default browser a digital space where you reveal the most about yourself are your browsing habits yours.

Browsing history is unique and speaks a lot about what you think and how you think. Trackers can know not just what websites you visit but also for how long and for what. Purpose this metadata reveals so much about your advertisers don’t even need to know the content of those sites based on metadata the single best thing you can do right.

Now is to install Firefox from Mozilla. Firefox is a free and open source software which is essential for all.

The privacy software you see when companies hide what their products are made of their proprietary codes most likely serves as a backdoor for government spies and advertisers. This is true for all tech giant’s as we know thanks to Snowden’s leaks in November 2017 Firefox went through a major performance and speed update and is now twice as fast as Google Chrome.

So, you can safely switch to Firefox without sacrificing your web browsing experience at all. After installing Firefox go to the preferences and under privacy and security set the tracking protection to be always on while you’re there check the box for do-not-track.

Also, you can block third-party cookies by turning these features on you don’t risk breaking any websites Firefox will block most commonly known analytics social media and advertising trackers side. The benefit of this is that websites will render twice as fast you’ll consume much less bandwidth and your device will work faster.

Draining less battery if you want to block even more ads and trackers we are going to install. You block origin this is the most effective blocker of malware trackers spyware and all the annoying ads.

Out there go to the add-ons tab and click it get add-ons and search for your blog origin. This is a very powerful add-on and it can be used to do a lot of things.

But for now, you are just good to install it and enjoy the web much faster and safer, you block origin blocks ads and tracker is much better than AdBlock class.

And if you choose to support a content creator you like it’s super easy to temporarily turn off blocking on their website.

There are some behind the scenes tracking mechanisms that you should also take care of luckily, this is also trivially easy. All you need is to just install HTTPS Everywhere and decentralized.

Both extensions require zero attention, once you install them HTTPS Everywhere will force websites to use encrypted versions and not leave your private information by Clinton silently loading unencrypted content decentralized is excellent at working behind the scenes.

It stops many requests to popular content delivery networks like Google hosted libraries which can read your data as it passes through their network the next-biggest director of information flow that reveals a lot about you are your search queries.

If you like to search a lot you are giving your search engine a lot of information about your mind, your search habits, just like your browsing history are uniquely identifiable. No two people a search for the exact same queries given the amount of metadata Google can collect from you while you use it.